DSA key sizes

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Mon Nov 10 20:10:13 CET 2014


> I'm proposing, or supporting the hypothesis at least, that a
> government agency has a rainbow table mapping one dsa public key to
> the corresponding private key, and vice versa. Given the amount of
> time and the amount of resources at their disposal, it's not that
> improbable for a 1024 bit keysize.

(a) that's not a rainbow table
(b) that's a table about a hellabyte in size

One hellabyte is about 50,000 times the total informational content
generated by the entire human race over the whole of our existence, by
the way.




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